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Greetings patient blog readers, and apologies for the somewhat laissez-faire approach I have taken to blog writing recently. Clearly I haven’t been including enough fibre in my writing diet. But I am back, and have decided to share with you some of my random musings of the past wee while, as the blog has been […]

Greetings blog readers! Well, I have been back in the blog world for a wee while now but have focused purely on big screen adventures, when there is SO much going on in small screen land that it is a little overwhelming at times. The number of conversations I have with people where they say […]

Aloha patient blog readers! I promised in my last blog that I would review some more Oscar fodder and I am making good on that promise, albeit in a slightly tortoise-like fashion. But, it’s still before the Oscars (just – they happen Monday afternoon NZT for all those who don’t already have it in their […]

Hello blog readers! Yes, it has been some time, and for that I profusely apologise. I could make up a fancy pants and complex excuse involving aliens, cats turning into dogs and time travel, but instead I will just stick with – I was a bit busy. But, it’s a long weekend, Oscar movies are […]

Movie Reviews: Trainwreck and Fantastic Four So I have two reviews for your reading pleasure on this sunny (where I am) Sunday. One was a trainwreck and the other one was friggin’ fantastic. Let’s see which was which… Trainwreck I went into this Judd Apatow-helmed, Amy Schumer-penned potty mouthed rom com with sky high expectations. […]

Firstly, apologies for this being the first blog in a wee while. I had kind of mentally decided, without informing you, my blog reading public, that I was going to go down to one blog every two weeks, as life just seems a little too busy right now. So, I was due one last weekend, […]

Ah, winter. For all the bad press you get for your torrential rain, glacial temperatures and unpredictable wind patterns, I don’t think you get the credit you deserve for allowing true sloths like me to embrace our sloth-like tendencies and spend as much time as possible in front of big and small screens. Of course, […]

So I returned from my European travels to some wonderful family news: the wisest and most sensible of us Rodgers, in conjunction with his equally wise and sensible wife, had bitten the bullet and bought a bach (for overseas people, and those from Southland, a ‘bach’ is a holiday home in kiwi parlance). Now, this […]

It’s been a while since I dispensed my opinion on the merits and otherwise of the films gracing out screens, and since it is summer blockbuster season in the States which means there is no shortage of fare to review, I am going to give you some short and snappy reviews of some of the […]

Hello Blog Readers! I am back from my gallivanting around the globe – and my two weeks of adjusting back to ‘normal life’ are at a close, so here I am, filling up the blogosphere again! As it has been so long between posts it seems appropriate to do a quick summary of my favourite […]